U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brock, Joseph Perry (b. 1850) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 346 Joseph Perry Brock, born 1850 in Pennsylvania, son of John A. and Jane (Kiger) Brock, was married September 1, 1872, to Mary, daughter of Seth and Drusilla (Swisher) Harris. Children, Florence, Frank, Birdie, Nellie and Nita. He is a member of the M. E. Church, South, an Odd Fellow, member of the Knights of Pythias, a Democrat, and a merchant residing at Philippi. He attended school at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, and began teaching school when sixteen years of age and taught six years in Marion and Monongalia Counties. He came to Barbour County in 1896 and became the owner, in succession, of a drug store in Philippi, one in Belington, and a general store in Philippi. He owns 114 acres of land in Green County, Pennsylvania, underlaid with coal and oil. He also owns oil interests in West Virginia. His father, John A. Brock, was born in Pennsylvania in 1807; his grandfather, Joseph Brock, was born in Ohio; and his great-grandfather, William Brock, was of German extraction, but was born in England, and emigrating to America, settled on the Muskingum River, in Ohio, being one of the pioneers. The wife of the subject of this sketch was born in Marion County, and belongs to the family of Swishers who were early settlers about Spring Hill, then Augusta County, Virginia. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------